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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 4d

too many idiots out there

deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 5d

As the world feels more out of control and spending money on food grows more burdensome, perhaps there’s never been a better time to comfort ourselves with something new to dip our feelings in.

MY LATEST on condiments and why we can't stop buying them.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why America’s Fridges Are Overflowing With Sauce

The pandemic is over, but households are still stocked up on fancy ketchups and chili crisp like the world could end tomorrow.

www.bloomberg.com

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 5d

HOLY MOLY LOOK AT THIS JOURNALISM JOB

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Investigations Team Leader - London

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 7d

the silver lining of this story on bots stoking Cracker Barrel outrage is that most people, actual human people, were not actually immediately outraged, but rather were goaded into it

www.wsj.com/articles/bot...

Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

www.wsj.com

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 7d

At a time when we need more of her and less of the rest, it is our great loss.

Eternally grateful for the kindness with which she lived by example, her revolutionary study of chimpanzees that shifted scientific understanding of animals and nature, and decades of advocating for a humane world.

My hero Jane Goodall. Text reads 1934-2025.

Jane Goodall comforts a frightened chimpanzee, early in her career, in Gombe National Park.

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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 7d

Some personal news: I'm now @bloomberg.com's lead EPA reporter, tracking everything climate -- and so much more. So if you're following a particular rule or proposal, program office or anything else EPA related (biofuels, PFAS, coal ash, etc), I want to know.

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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's EPA is looking to extend deadlines to comply with rules to switch to cleaner refrigerants. The proposal applies to everything from residential air conditioning to retail food refrigeration and semiconductor manufacturing.

Story @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EPA Wants to Roll Back HFC Super Pollutant Rules

The agency is proposing delaying the phaseout of chemicals used in ACs and refrigerators that can release highly potent greenhouse gases.

www.bloomberg.com

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 7d

There is nothing worse than Google Meet. Absolute worst. Never works.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 10d

I know, I know, Adams was a very corrupt mayor. But he was so entertaining. His rat obsession! A pretend vegan! Maybe he doesn't even live in NYC?! Priceless.

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 10d

here is what i think: it is a beautiful day outside and if you don't have to be indoors, don't be

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 10d

Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the resistance

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

“.. Me personally? I don’t care,” Ms. Greene went on. These days, when she encounters tactics .. from Mr. Trump’s team, she added, “I’m like, ‘[Expletive] you.’”

@nytimes.com #GA14
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 12d

I love vegetables, I really do, I eat them all the time.

But if you give me parsnips and arugula and tell me it's dinner, I'm going to be very upset.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Last word about the massacre to American Horse (Lakota): "The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were heavy with child were also killed." /fin

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

Hey -- there is no shame in crying on the subway

deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

I totally and completely agree on targeting eaters! Never understood why the Dems didn't spend more time on that in campaigns, when they do push good policies. Everyone eats! And people actually care a lot about their food. Shocking, I know.

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

hmmm... you think this is immutable? even with a bailout, no farmer wants to watch their harvests rot.

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

You know more about politics than I do, but why not do both?

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

well that's where the responsibility is

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

Just a guess, but it's often not really up to individual writers to cover major industry news.

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 19d

every rural county should be considered up for grabs in the midterms

a must read from @ilenapeng.bsky.social

(with a gift link!)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

American Farmers Are Feeling the Pain of Trump’s Policies

US agricultural communities that had expected Trump to have their backs have found themselves flung into a second trade war. If the situation continues, it could put loyalties at risk.

www.bloomberg.com

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 20d

when the director of the FBI is driving a Krispy Kreme stock rally. totally normal.

(gift link!)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kash Patel Called Krispy Kreme Stock a Buy and Fueled Wild Rally

Hours into his second day of contentious testimony in Congress, Kash Patel, the FBI director, sparked one of the more unusual stock rallies of the year.

www.bloomberg.com

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 20d

UPDATE: it wasn't good

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cracker Barrel Outlook Falls Short Following Rebrand Controversy

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. fell sharply after offering sales guidance that missed expectations, showing the brand is still dealing with the fallout from its controversial and short-lived lo...

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 21d

I appear to have eaten a piece of my compostable fork. Seems fine, right?

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 21d

who's excited for Cracker Barrel earnings tonight??

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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 23d

well this is just heartbreaking

NPR @npr.org · 23d

It is not the first time such on-the-nose grief has been observed in this endangered population. In January, orca J35 carried a dead baby for at least five days. J35 had previously made world headlines in 2018 when she carried her dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles. From @kuow.org

Orca mom carries dead newborn calf in San Juans

www.kuow.org

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